Edith Maryon - Rudolf Steiner and the Christ Sculpture June 26th 2021

 

Veil Painting and the Art of Transparent Color with Van James

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April 3-10 2021 - 9am-2:30pm Drawing in Grades K-8 and Painting in Grades 7-8 by Van James

 

The Transformative Power of Art with Van James

 

Spring/Summer Art Section Newsletter Now Online

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Autumn/Winter Art Section Newsletter Now Online

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Spring/Summer Art Section Newsletter Now Online

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Sun Studio Art Retreat 2020 August 7 thru 11 with Jennifer Thomson

Visual Art Section News: November Conference at the Goetheanum

Dear friends of the arts! As you may have heard already, my time as the leader of the section for visual arts is drawing to a close. I would therefore like to cordially invite you to the last major event that I am carrying in this function. 180 WORKS BY 80 ARTISTS FROM THE THREE-COUNTRY TRIANGLE BASEL  From 28 November to 1 December there will be a large sales exhibition in the carpentry workshop of the Goetheanum. The work of Frederieke Nelissen (Holland) and Zoltán Döbrötei (Hungary) will also be on show as well as the exhibition of contemporary paintings by Georgian artists at the 1st floor of the Goetheanum. (The artwork of all four exhibitions can be purchased.)

From the 29.11. to 1.12. you are warmly invited to this year's November conference entitled "Visual Art not within the frame? The renewal of Christian Art."  On Sunday, 1.12. during the afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. we would like to offer an opportunity for exchange. Marianne Schubert will give a review of her work and a preview by Christiane Haid to the work of the Visual Art Section starting in January 2020 will conclude the weekend of art. Looking forward to seeing you soon with warm greetings  Marianne Schubert

News From Council Member Bert Chase

Please be encouraged to participate in any of these meetings. 
Contact Bert Chase directly: 
hsca.inc@gmail.com 

Norton Hall      Rudolf Steiner College     Designed by Bert Chase

October 9 – 14: Atlanta, GA

US AGM/NA Collegian – coordination meeting between NA Art Sections

October 17 – 21: Toronto, ON

General Anthroposophical Section meeting – to include forward planning for Art Sections contributions for 19 Lessons Conference

November 1 – 4: Dornach, Switzerland

International Classholder meeting – to include the contribution of artistic practice in class work.  

November 5 – 10: Dornach, Switzerland

General Secretaries Meeting – to include the amalgamation of leadership of Arts Sections, forward planning.

November 11: Toronto, ON

Meeting with Visual Art Section members

January 2 – 5, 2020: Vancouver, BC

AGM Planning Meeting – coordination of art exhibition for AGM

January 9 – 13: Calgary, AB

General Anthroposophical Section meeting – Visual Art Section/Social Science Section, the arts and challenging social issues

March 30 – April 1: Dornach, Switzerland 

General Secretaries Meeting – ongoing development of leadership of Arts Sections.

April 1 – 6: Dornach, Switzerland

General Assembly – discussion and final adoption of proposed modifications to Arts Sections leadership

May 14 – 18: Vancouver, BC

Annual General Meeting, Canada – art exhibit related to conference theme

May 28 – 31: Spring Valley, NY

Collegium/Spring Valley Eurythmy – review of leadership changes for Arts Sections and their implications in North America.

The Visual Art Section of North America Council Member Report 2019 by Van James

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Van's  Upcoming Schedule 

Dec. 6-8, 2019—Shen-Mei-Jhen Waldorf Education, Taichung, Taiwan

The Secret Language of Metamorphosis and the Art of Transformation: Pathways to Experiencing Etheric Formative Forces 

Dec. 13-15, 2019—Shen-Mei-Jhen Waldorf Education, Taichung, Taiwan

The Art & Individuality of Color: An Introduction to the Painting Indications of Rudolf Steiner    

Jan. 3-4, 2020—Haleakala Waldorf School, Kula, Maui, Hawaii

The Secret Language of Metamorphosis and the Art of Transformation

Feb. TBA, 2020—Rudolf Steiner House, Auckland, New Zealand

Celtic Mystery Art and Patterns in the World of Formative Forces 

May. TBA, 2020—Paro College of Education, Paro, Bhutan

The Arts as Core Curriculum: Teaching as an Art

July. 26-Aug. 9, 2020—Yinchuan, China

A  Deepening in the Visual Arts: Grades 1-8 Painting and Drawing

 

Sept. 5-12, 2020—Steiner Education Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A Deepening in Waldorf Art Education and an Overview of Drawing for Grades 1-8 and Painting for 7-8

Sept. 25-28, 2020—Prarna School, Hyderbad, India

The Visual Arts as Self-Development

Dec. 4-13, 2020—Taichung, Taiwan

TBA

Autumn/Winter 2018 Art Section Newsletter Now Online

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Seminar with Dennis Klocek and Pamela Whitman in Fair Oaks, California

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Upcoming Weekend with Michael Howard in Portland Oregon

The Death of Ted Mahle

Theodore (Ted) Clyde Mahle
b. January 14, 1940
d. December 9, 2017 (10:00 A.M.)

Biography

             

Raised on a dairy farm in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Ted sketched the countryside around him. At age 16 he studied art for a year with Conrad Roland, a well known artist from Kempton. He graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Art Education. Then he worked for 7 years as a graphic designer in New York City, while attending evening classes in drawing, illustration and design at the School of Visual Arts.

After taking the Foundation Year in Anthroposophical Studies at Emerson College, England, Ted studied German and speech-formation at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, for 2 years. He completed a 3-year painting training, according to Rudolf Steiner's methods, with Beppe Assenza at the Goetheanum Painting School in 1976 (ERES MFA Equivalent), and was a teaching assistant in the school from 1975 to 1978. For 3 years he was employed as a painting therapist at Sonnhalde Schulheim Curative Home, Gempen, Switzerland, working with all ages from early childhood to adults.

Returning to the US, Ted directed the Arts Program: “Renewing the Art of Painting,” a year-long morning course at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California, from 1982 to 2003, as well as teaching many other art classes. From 2003 to 2005 he taught art at Davis Waldorf School. Travels to see the great visual art works of the world, in their original environment, formed the basis for art history studies

Upcoming Art Section Conference in Dornach Nov. 17 - 19

Spring-Summer 2017 Newsletter Available Online

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Whitsun Workshop 2017 in Portland Oregon

Christopher Ritson: 2017 Honolulu Biennial Artist by Van James

Many people look at the Honolulu Waldorf School and think it's a kind of art school because so much art is offered. But the truth is that HWS has just as much focus on the math and sciences, languages and humanities as other schools (if not more), but it matches those subjects with many different artistic disciplines, providing a balance or counter weight to the academic school day. In fact, many of the HWS graduates go into fields completely unrelated to art; they just take a creative, can-do artistry to their choice of direction and career.

So it is a great pleasure when one of our alumni chooses a career in the highly competitive and unusually challenging world of Post-modern Art. Christopher Ritson (Class of 2004) is one of the 22 invited artists showing at the first Honolulu Biennial, between March 8 and May 8, 2017. This is quite a prestigious honor for this young artist.

However, Chris was something of an unlikely candidate for the art world when he was finishing high school. Although gifted at drawing and painting it was looking like he was going to be on a science track. His senior project was a large self-sustaining, eco-friendly aquarium, built from the ground up. But he decided to go to the San Francisco Art Institute and he became known for his unique blend of science and art. His artwork is actually more like freeform scientific research than an art project. And his present exhibit at the Biennial involves living organisms, or what he calls bio-generative artwork.

The Corallinales, Chris’ exhibit, can be described as living paintings growing in two aquarium tanks under artificial light. Coralline algae have been scraped from ocean trash collected from the Honolulu Harbor, Waikiki Beach, Diamond Head, and from the surf break where Ala Wai Canal, an artificial and controversial waterway, flows into the Pacific Ocean. The algae are placed in a supportive environment for the corallines to thrive on glass and plastic debris, allowing them to produce a range of red, pink, grey and mauve abstract images. Over the two months of the exhibition these coralline algae paintings will literally grow into pictures.

The senior class of HWS was fortunate enough to have a guided tour of The Hub, one of the Biennial’s several venues around town. Chris Ritson came in especially to talk to the Class of 2017 about his work. Every 9^th grade studies the history of art up to the 17^th century but it is in 12^th grade that Modern and Post-modern Art are studied. So the Biennial visit fit right into the 12^th grade’s curriculum and they got to see one Waldorf graduate’s path of uniting his interest in both the sciences and the arts.

It is interesting that Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Waldorf education, made the following prediction over a hundred years ago, right at the beginning of Modern Art, well before the advent of Post-modern, Conceptual Art: “I believe that the significant factor in … attempting to understand the concept of art, is that an art of the conceptual will come about in which the work and activity of ideation will be fulfilled with images, with reality, and that what now appears as dry science will in the future come closer to art.” The work of Chris Ritson certainly bears out this prediction.

My Development in the Visual Arts by David Adams

Although I am now (2016) 67 years old, it is only in the

last few years that, in addition to being an art historian

and art theorist, I have begun to think of myself as a visual

artist – primarily in ”newer” mediums like performance art,

installation, and visual music (“light art”). However, a request

for me to write my “artistic biography” leads me to realize that

I have been involved with related “artistic activities” off and

on for decades. There have been many diverse aspects to my

life, and it is sometimes difficult (also for me) to find a clear

continuity through it all, but here I will undertake a selective

review from the point of view of "myself-as-a-creative-artist."

Read the complete essay with photos by clicking here...